An essential element of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) mission is to track far-right efforts to advance from the margins to the mainstream. Several state legislators took part in state-level efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election. The IREHR research team reviewed the data of thousands of far-right groups on the Facebook platform and found deepening ties between far-right groups and state legislators. Another is a prolific joiner of a panoply of far-right Facebook groups. This group of legislators collectively sponsored 963 anti-human rights bills in 2021-22, 62.86% of the total included in this report.

Source: New York Times May 13, 2022 21:36 UTC